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Howland and Baker, 25 mi. apart, are some 1,100 mi. due west of Jarvis. Howland was first sighted by Captain George E. Netcher out of New Bedford in 1842. Fifteen years later the U. S. S. St. Mary's formally took the islands for the U. S. What, then, was all the official secrecy about in reclaiming this land? The answer seemed to lie in a brand new factor in Pacific diplomacy: transoceanic airlines...
...Silver Jubilee book on the Empire & King, Mr. Buchan achieved his final masterpiece of subtle flattery. When Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett then advised Buckingham Palace that "Mr." Buchan would make a fine Governor-General (part of Canada's reason being that, after 14 peers, the Dominion wanted a commoner), His Majesty proved so oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage...
Month ago the Depression-made hair-shirt of popular disgust formerly worn in North America by Herbert Hoover was transferred to Canada's rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, an able and aggressive businessman who neither drinks nor smokes but has been seen by intimates to extract furtively from the bottom drawer of his desk a chocolate cream. In desperation good Mr. Bennett attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed...
Dewey Roberts (Frank M. Thomas Jr.), a high-strung seventh-grade schoolboy, lives in the Midwest but has a burning love of boats and the sea. He adores his young teacher (Francesca Burning) because she hails from New Bedford, knows what a jibboom is, encourages his enthusiasm. When Dewey finds her kissing the athletic coach, whom he also idolizes, he is heartbroken, persuades his bumbling father (Frank M. Thomas Sr.) to send him to boarding school. Twenty years later Dewey, now an extremely important personage in the shipping industry encounters the teacher, dowdy and myopic, in a Washington hotel...
Still almost as unpopular as Herbert Hoover, Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett submitted last week to the ultimate indignity in Canada's election campaign (TIME, Aug. 19). His Conservative campaign managers convinced him that the huge posters everywhere reading VOTE BENNETT! are such a liability to the Party that they were ordered changed to VOTE CONSERVATIVE...